Enzym Group is a second-generation family business of the Ukrainian Vovk family of entrepreneurs. From a Lviv yeast plant, the company continues to transform into a global biotech player. This is a path of challenges, experiments, and most importantly, faith and confidence. We do not betray our values, mission and dreams.
Today, we provide partners in 23 countries with food, feed, bakery and alcohol solutions to improve people's living standards.
On the occasion of his birthday, Enzym Group, together with Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, donated UAH 1,000,000 to the Superhumans Center, a modern center for prosthetics, reconstructive surgery and rehabilitation of war victims.
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Enzym Group has two plants. The company's production capacity is 60 thousand tons.
In 2015, the company began developing its own R&D center, which is engaged in ongoing research of the yeast cell and the development of knowledge-intensive products that make food tastier and healthier. Today, the center's team consists of 25 scientists.
Launched an innovative superfood for healthy eating - Flakes yeast flakes with cheese and nut flavor, as well as spirulina, Mediterranean herbs and carrots, which are already available in several Ukrainian supermarket chains.
The export map now includes 23 countries. These include Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, the United Kingdom, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Greece, and Turkey.
Enzym Group and Kormotech companies won the Family Business nomination of the Ukrainian Entrepreneur of the Year award.
Olena Vovk, co-owner of Enzym Group, is among the top 50 Ukrainian wartime leaders.
At the beginning of the full-scale invasion, when other producers were not working, Enzym Group provided the entire country with yeast to prevent Ukrainians from going without bread. To do this, we quickly rebuilt our supply chain.
Enzym Group has the only biotechnology production of functional foods in Ukraine. It is a fully automated innovative LinkCell plant that can be operated by one person using a smartphone if necessary. The company invested 22 million euros in its construction. It was started in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the plant was launched during the war by its own engineers - foreign consultants refused to come.
The company has started producing ingredients for ready-to-eat food manufacturers that allow them to replace carcinogenic monosodium glutamate with a healthy alternative that enhances flavor. This helps other players in the food industry “clean up” the label.
Over the past 5 years, the number of Enzym Group employees has increased by more than 27%.
The company supports education and science: it has established biotech studios for senior students majoring in biotechnology, biochemistry, and bioengineering, conducts practical classes on the basics of biotechnology for high school students in cooperation with the Center for the Education of the Free and the Indifferent, and provides a teaching scholarship at the Ukrainian Catholic University
In 1996, Ukraine became one of the first post-Soviet countries to produce dry yeast. To date, Enzym Group is the only such Ukrainian producer.
In the 1990s, the future CEO of the company, Andriy Tsegelyk, left IT for finance and started working at Enzym Group. Nowadays, biotech is called the new IT.
Enzym Group has a portfolio of more than 20 brands, including both own brands and private labels in Ukraine and abroad.
The company is entering new markets with new products. Currently, Enzym Group's feed additives for aquaculture are being tested on shrimp in Vietnam: weight gain, yield, cost, and profitability are being studied.
It was the first enterprise in Ukraine to have a wastewater treatment plant in 2004. The system has already undergone three stages of capital modernization and is currently undergoing the fourth. The company has invested over 11 million euros.
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, we have donated more than 11 million UAH to the needs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This was made possible thanks to the hard work and initiative of all Enzyme employees.
Transforming from a yeast plant into a biotech company, Enzym Group is developing four business areas globally: Food Solutions, Feed Solutions, Alcohol Solutions, Bakery Solutions
Enzym Group is a long-term market leader in Ukraine. The company's share in professional baking is 52%, in home baking - 74.1%, and in solutions for the production of craft alcoholic beverages - 43.5%.
The director of the R&D center, Olena Krasovska, is one of 15 leaders in Ukrainian science.
Enzym Group has its own touch panel. This is a study of the flavor profiles of products before scaling up to production and launching them on the market. In 2023, the sensory team conducted 186 tests.
In 2023, the company exported 56% of its products.
During the pandemic, together with Kormotech, the company purchased more than 15 million hryvnias worth of equipment and materials for Lviv hospitals.
The “Lvivski Drizhdzhi” brand won gold in the Non-Standard/Original Idea category at the international digital advertising competition MIXX Awards 2024 for its movie recipe project.
To diversify its business, Enzym Group created Kormotech in the 2000s, a company that is one of the world's top 50 manufacturers of cat and dog food.
In 2023, the company reached its highest annual output of 48.1 thousand tons. Turnover in 2023 was 24.31% higher compared to 2022. The growth was driven by exports: there was an increase in volumes (B2C and dry yeast segment) and prices (including due to the rise in the euro).
Enzym Group's feed additives are used to increase weight gain and productivity, as well as to reduce the need for antibiotics in the animal diet and improve the quality of livestock products: meat, milk and eggs.
The company became an intellectual partner of the New Food Summit, the first conference in Ukraine on technologies that are changing the food market from field to plate.
In 2023, Enzym Group donated 10 thousand Easter cakes to the residents of Kherson region for Easter.
Thanks to its modern wastewater treatment facilities, Enzym Group can generate biogas from the entire volume of wastewater, which allows it to replace more than 60% of the company's natural gas needs, make the company more environmentally friendly and energy efficient, and reduce the load on municipal wastewater treatment plants.
